Dayananda believed that Hinduism had come to be corrupted over time, and gave the call of ‘Back to the Vedas’. He started the Arya Samaj movement in 1875. It gradually became an institution in itself, and among many things, it repudiated meaningless rites and rejected worship of idols of numerous gods, stood for equal rights of man and woman, opposed untouchability and supported inter-caste marriage.
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